I am a recovering alcoholic/addict, researcher into the neuropsychology of addictive behaviours, writer and blogger at http://alcoholicsguidetoalcoholism.com/
and https://insidethealcoholicbrain.com/
and have contributed to various other addiction/recovery-based websites such as Addictionland, Klen + Sobr and Recovery SI.
I currently research and write theoretical articles with academics from a UK University
Part 1 Fascinating use of Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorisation Theory (SCT) to explain recovery via recovery groups and communities (1). SIT pro- poses that, in a range of social contexts, people’s sense of self is derived from their membership of various social groups. The resulting social identities […]
“Based on these results, we believe that the insula could be hyperactive in problem gamblers, making them more susceptible to errors of thinking.” Dr Luke Clark “Gambling addicts are likely to have developed a different pattern of brain activity than non-gamblers which gives them a misguided belief […]
In relation to other addictive behaviours, Gambling Disorders seems to have many different types of cognitive distortion which are specific to the disorder. Obviously gambling addicts also exhibit the general cognitive distortions exhibited by other addictive behaviours too. Table 1. shows the myriad of cognitive distortions associated with Gambling Disorder. […]
This is an appendum to yesterday’s blog – Ultimately, as this study (1) alludes to, there is a vital role for amygdaloid activity in both anxiety disorders and in alcoholism. It seems, however, to be suggesting that this amygdaloid hyperactivity is mainly prevalent in withdrawal and protracted abstinence. […]
We have often thought that the issue of co-morbidity with addiction may be better understood by appreciating that certain “anxiety” type manifestations in addiction, often attributed to a co-occurring anxiety disorder, may be the consequence of an hyper reactive amygdaloid region in the brain. This commonality […]
Alcoholics and addicts and those with other addictive behaviours appear to have the same general cognitive distortions as well as distortions of errors in thinking specific to their manifest addictive behaviour. However, there seem to be overlaps in certain cognitive distortions as in the case of […]
Thought Shape Fusion – Cognitive Distortions linked to Eating Disorders Throughout our blogs on this blogsite we have attempted to show that there are commonalities between various addictive behaviours from alcoholism to addiction to substances, to behavioural addictions such as Gambling disorder, Hypersexual Disorder, Eating Disorders and […]
A biopsychosocial view of sex addiction – Part 2 “The psychology of sex addiction There are numerous psychological factors that feed into addiction processes and into the development and continuation of sexual addiction. An understanding and exploration of the emotional and cognitive influences are important […]
A biopsychosocial view of sex addiction – Part 1 As readers may be well aware now we advocate a biopsychosocial view of all addictions and addictive behaviours and our biopsychosocial theory of addictve behaviour is briefly covered here About.Paul Henry and in the footer section at the bottom of […]
Throughout this blogsite we have argued that addictive behaviours are rooted in inherent stress/emotion dysregulation and in emotion processing deficits such as alexithymia. These emotion processing deficits give rise to undifferentiated emotion states which are not utilised in reasonable prefrontal cortex based decision making but instead prompt more motoric […]
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